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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

The Big Weekend Pod

The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

Salem Podcast Network

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.4609 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2025

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Hugh discusses the news of the week with Eli Lake, Matt Continetti, Ben Domenech, John Ellis, Jonathan Williams, and Doug Lesmerises.

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0:35.6

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0:48.0

Morning, glory, and evening, Grace, America. Welcome to the big weekend pod. Of course, we should be talking about the Schumer shutdown, and we will,

0:55.9

because it's the Weekend Review show, and I'm talking with Ben Dominic and Matt Continenti, among

1:00.8

others. But Eli Lake is also coming along, and we're going to talk about the now-forgotten

1:05.1

story that James Comey has been indicted. Eli devoted an entire episode of breaking history to that. And I want to get deep

1:13.1

into what we're going to do about Hamas. Hamas has basically said, nye, they're not going to do it.

1:21.0

They're trying to buy some time. Donald Trump posted earlier today on true social that this is

1:27.3

their last and only chance to say yes.

1:30.7

I guess that means that the IDF is going to go full force.

1:34.9

But I'll ask Ben Dominic, Matt Contenetti, and others about that today.

1:40.0

My view is there's really no expecting anything from terrorists, and I imagine they're going to have to be dug out of the tunnels and tunnels blown up the hard way, with all due regard for the hostages and their safety, and hopefully Israel has an idea of where they are, and they can avoid the very final offensive until the last members of Hamas have a chance to surrender with the

2:03.3

hostages alive. But I don't think they're going to stop. I think Donald Trump's message on

2:07.9

true social on Friday was as clear as it could be. Nobody's on their side anymore. Iran's not

2:14.7

bringing any help. The flotilla's not getting there. Nothing's going to happen.

2:18.9

So the only thing that Hamas can do is come out with their hands up and leave for Iran or come out

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